[25591] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS for 16.172.in-addr.arpa
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Thu Oct 21 15:08:09 1999
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
Message-Id: <199910211923.MAA04979@vacation.karoshi.com>
To: grisha@verio.net
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 12:23:12 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.05.9910211427580.11788-100000@koi> from "grisha@verio.net" at Oct 21, 1999 02:35:22 PM
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> We were having a small problem here and I traced it down to a reverse DNS
> lookup on a 172.16 address hanging.
>
> I noticed that a.root-servers.net reports that BLACKHOLE.ISI.EDU is
> authoritative for 16.172.in-addr.arpa.
>
> Is this the way it should be, or is the yet another network solutions
> mistake? Who should really handle DNS for rfc1918 addresses?
>
> Grisha
This is accurate.
--bill
